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Alcohol: another battlefield

December 20th, 2009

http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/mundiales/noticias/el alcohol: el otro campo de batalla/428783 The Binge drinking is accentuated among veterans. By Lizette Alvarez The New York Times New York – Most nights when Anthony Klecker, a former Marine, came at last to sleep, he was back on the battlefields of Iraq. In an article published in the Huffington Post who is president of The Campaign for a US-Afghanistan Partnership She awoke in a panic and struggled futilely to get back to sleep. “The problem is that in today’s armed forces, the soldiers must be warriors, murderers, make war, but do not allow them any freedom as we used to do,” said Bryan Lane, a former special forces sergeant who received a traumatic brain injury in Iraq and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, by its initials in English. “You can not go out and drink, can not get into fights. This is totally inconsistent with reality.” Armed forces, he said, are trying to create a contradiction: “a perfect warrior and then a perfect gentleman.”